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Mr. E. B. Denison. 



[Feb. 11, 



St. George*, and I then announced that St. James's Church had been 

 designed expressly to expose and refute this ornamentation theory, as 

 well as some other modern notions which I shall speak of presently. 

 At that time the result of the experiment was only conjectural, and I 

 daresay many of the audience thought it a very foolish one ; though 

 even then it had been observed that some of the plainest parts of the 

 church we were in were superior to some of the most highly decorated. 



ST. JAMES'S CHURCH, DONCASTER. NORTH-EAST VIEW. 



Now, however, the result is before you, so far as this large painting 

 can exhibit it ;f and if you will take the trouble to stop at Doncaster 



♦ See Two Lectures delivered at Doncaster on the 23rd of September, 1857, bt/ 

 G G. Scott and E. B. Denison.— Bvodk^ and Co., Doncaster ; Bell and Daldy. 

 Price 6rf. 



t Two pictures of these churches, on a very large scale, were drawn for the 

 lecture by the Rev. James Bell, who was curate of Doncaster when the parish 

 church was burnt down, and who painted at the time a remarkable picture of the 

 church on fire, since lithographed in colour in the Kev J. E. Jackson's History 

 of St. George's Church at Doncaster, with various other illustrations of the old and 

 new churches. Messrs. Brooke and Co. have lent me the accompanying woodcut of 

 St. James's Church. Unfortunately there is not one in existence of St. George's, 

 with the tower as it is now buijt : in other respects the picture of it in my Lectures 

 on Churchbuilding is eorrect. 



